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Since the early 1970s, law-enforcement officers have used video cameras to tape drunk-driving suspects, for crowd surveillance and to record "sting" operations. (By far the most famous use: the Abscam investigations that led to the convictions of former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and six Congressmen...
Edmund Morris, a Theodore Roosevelt biographer, reminds us that invective can sting and skewer, yet bring admiration for the pronouncer. He spoke at the Smithsonian Institution last month on T.R. as a writer, noting that Roosevelt indulged in the biting phrase for the sheer joy of it. "One often heard the undertone of Homeric chuckling," said Morris, when Roosevelt delivered himself of another polished gem, "as if, after all, he loved the fun of hating what he hated." Few people could stay angry at such artistry and boyishness...
...newspaper readers in New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia, the ad that promised a 50? saving on purchases of Essent Shampoo was nothing special. But to police authorities, it was the largest sting operation ever organized against coupon crooks...
From the police's standpoint, it was a routine undercover procedure, a smalltime heroin sting. The "dealer" in the Washington motel room last Monday night was a District of Columbia policeman. The buyers were two unwise young men: the acquaintance who set them up with the dealer was a police informer. In short order, five parcels, half a gram of heroin in each "nickel bag," were exchanged for $150. The dupes headed outside, into a circle of four waiting police officers. Winston Prude, 32, a lawyer, panicked and stuffed one of the nickel bags into his mouth...
...this creates considerable dissatisfaction back home. Says a State Department official: "Begin is learning the difficulty in a democratic society of waging a prolonged war. When the going gets rough, the home pressure is to pull out." While Begin remains politically secure, he is beginning to feel the sting of Israeli disapproval arising from a problem that has so far defied solution...